Three Strong Women
Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize
$27.04
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
22 December 2026
Summary
‘NDiaye will win the Nobel Prize’ New Yorker
A Booker International Prize Shortlistee and Winner of the Prix Goncourt.
The story of three women who say no: Norah, a French-born lawyer who finds herself in Senegal, summoned by her estranged father to save another victim of his paternity; Fanta, who leaves a contented life as a teacher in Dakar to follow her boyfriend back to France, where his depression and dislocation poison everything; and Khady, a penniless widow pu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529454628 |
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| ISBN-10: | 152945462X |
| Author: | Marie NDiaye, John Fletcher |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 22 December 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
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Critics Review
‘The prose compels with its astonishing range and precision’ Maya Jaggi, Guardian. * Guardian *
‘NDiaye was the first black woman to win the Prix Goncourt in 2009: the French equivalent of the Man Booker. I can see why. The novel has a passion, daring and individuality that makes it stand out’ Bernadine Evaristo, Independent. * Independent *
‘The youngest finalist for the Man Booker International prize, French-born NDiaye recalls Henry James’s prose style with her fondness for long, careful and psychologically complex sentences’ Sunday Herald. * Sunday Herald *
‘Extraordinarily powerful’ Kate Saunders, The Times. * The Times *
About The Author
Marie NDiaye
Marie NDiaye was born in France in 1967. She published her first novel at seventeen and has won the Prix Femina (for Rosie Carpe in 2001) and the Prix Goncourt (for Three Strong Women, 2009). Her play “Papa Doit Manger” has been taken into the repertoire of the Comedie Fran aise. Her novel Ladivine was longlisted for the Booker International Prize in 2016, and in 2020 she was awarded the Prix Marguerite Yourcenar for her entire body of work. She lives in Paris.
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